Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

- Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

10.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

11.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

14.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

15.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

18.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

20.

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

21.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

22.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

29.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

31.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

32.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

33.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

34.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

35.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

40.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

41.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

42.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

43.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

44.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

45.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry